Members of our Elders programme came in last week to celebrate their work on ‘The Somewhat Imagined, Partly Historical, True Story of the Forgotten Irish Playwright Teresa Deevy’ that they staged with us back in February.
“During our development period as the team researched Deevy’s life and plays we came across a lot of contradictions and assumptions so that as with any real person we had no real idea what the truth of her was. We don’t really know what Teresa was like and we all have different interpretations of her personality and how she operated in the world as a deaf woman. So we made the decision to have many of the ensemble play her. We also believe in equality of casting!
Deevy’s characters, as all characters, have been and were be played by various actors so again we made the decision to swap these roles around constantly throughout the cast.“
✨Congratulations again to our Elders on such a wonderful show ✨